illicit romance

Example Sentences

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Two scholars investigate an illicit romance between two poets of the Victorian era.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 2, 2019

In a libretto by the fashionable Dutch philosopher Peter Sloterdijk, an exiled Jew and Babylonian have, as in “Nabucco,” an illicit romance.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2019

Burton Hersh, author of “Edward Kennedy: An Intimate Biography,” balks at any insinuation of drunkenness, illicit romance or the portrayal of Ted’s father, Joe, as orchestrator of a coverup.

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2018

Despite his pledge, Nadir did for a time have an illicit romance with Leila; he still yearns for her.

From New York Times • Jan. 1, 2016

The film is seen by some critics as a companion piece to Haynes' Far From Heaven, about an illicit romance between a white woman and a black man, also set in the 1950s.

From BBC • May 17, 2015